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SS wrote:

> Than please explain WHY my husband is still alive????

http://www.cancerhelp.org.uk/help/default_printer_friend.asp?page=4907
For those who have surgery to remove the cancer

* About 3 out of 4 (75%) live for at least 1 year
* About 1 in 2 (50%) live for at least 3 years
* About 3 out of 10 (30%) live for at least 5 years

Understandably, the figures are lowest for those who have a more advanced
cancer at diagnosis.

It is rare for someone with primary liver cancer that cannot be removed to
live for more than 3 years after diagnosis.

If the cancer is very advanced, sadly, patients are unlikely to live for
much more than a year at most.

Other factors affecting prognosis
There are other factors that can affect your prognosis, apart from the
stage of your cancer. Doctors have a way of grading how well you are.
They call this your ?performance status?. You may see this written PS. A
score of 0 means you are completely able to look after yourself. A score
of 1 means you can do most things for yourself, but need some help. The
scores continue to go up, depending on how much help you need. This is
relevant to survival because overall, the fitter people are, the better
able they are to withstand their cancer and treatment.

For liver cancer, there are further factors that affect your choice of
possible treatments. The most important is whether the cancer has grown
into any major blood vessels in the liver. Your surgeon may call this
?vascular invasion? or ?microvascular invasion?.

How reliable are these statistics?
No statistics can tell you what will happen to you. Your cancer is
unique.

The same type of cancer can grow at different rates in different people
for example.

The statistics are not detailed enough to tell you about the different
treatments people may have had. And how that treatment may have affected
their prognosis.

Chemotherapy, surgery and radiotherapy may help people to live longer as
well as relieving symptoms. There are many individual factors that will
determine your treatment and prognosis. If you are fit enough to have
treatment, you are likely to do better than average, particular if your
cancer is more advanced.

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